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Restorative Practices Master Class Building Bridges and Restoring Connections Facing Forward are delighted that Real Justice Australia founder, Terry O’Connell, is back in Ireland and is facilitating a one-day Master Class for Restorative Practitioners on Building Bridges and Restoring Connections. The Day will present a unique opportunity to develop your philosophy and practice in a […]

Over thirty people attended a three-day intensive work shop on Restorative Practices with pioneer Terry O Connell from New South Wales, Australia. Organised by Facing Forward and held at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Terry stated that there was something special about ‘holding a workshop at a place like Glencree that had seen […]

Facing forward facilitators present two workshops: Barbara Walshe, Margaret O Quigley present a circle workshop: Are We Victims of Something or Is That Just Life? Catherine O Connell and Tim Coughlan present: To ‘Script’ or Not to ‘Script’? That Is the Question? · Can core mediation questions enhance and contribute to a restorative process? More […]

Facing Forward offer a three-day workshop facilitated by the renowned Australian Pioneer of Restorative Justice, Terry O’Connell. The ‘Cop from Wagga Wagga’ comes to Ireland to share his knowledge, philosophy and vast experience of working restoratively in a range of settings and contexts from prisons to communities to youth work to workplaces. The emphasis is […]

Judge Mary Ellen Ring entertained, informed and challenged the large gathering in Whitefriar St. Community Centre, last Tuesday, as she spoke of her (almost!) lifelong interest in and commitment to the practice of Restorative Justice. Her early introduction, at four years of age, involved the presentation of a thank-you bouquet of flowers to her mother. […]

This publication is one of the outcomes of the two year research project entitled ‘Developing integrated responses to sexual violence: An interdisciplinary research project on the potential of restorative justice’ coordinated by the Leuven Institute of Criminology, University of Leuven (Belgium) between March 2013 and February 2015. Download the practice guide here.

Moving on shows Lucy, the victim of a mugging, replaying events endlessly in her mind. Only when she meets the mugger in a restorative justice conference is she able to put the incident behind her – it gives her a chance to explain the impact of the crime, and humanises him in the process. […]